Painted Black IPA â With the look of a stout but the hop punch of an IPA, head brewer Dan Murphy calls this his âbeer-geek beer.â Itâs dark. Itâs hoppy. And at 7 percent alcohol by volume, drinkers should approach it with caution. Pairs well with something salty and deep fried.

Based on the 51st batch of home-brew concocted by brewer Dan Murphy, this is a hoppy American pale ale akin to a Sierra Nevada but with more hops sweetness and less of a bight. Dry hops are added to the fermentation stage which pumps up the hop aroma and flavor. It has 5.8 percent alcohol by volume. Pairs well with...

An American Blonde Ale. Head brewer Dan Murphy said that he came up with the name for his beer before he zeroed in on a recipe. As the name implies, this beer is easy drinking, an introductory craft beer. At 3.8 percent alcohol by volume, you can drink a fair amount of it without getting hammered. Pairs well with a...

McCrorry & Williams, a local civil engineering firm that proposes to partner with Pillar Design Studios. Pillar is a Tempe, Ariz., based company that focuses on concrete park designs. The firm has designed dozens of parks all over the country. Pictured here is a park it constructed in Front Royal, Va. (Photo courtesy Pillar Design)

CSA Group, a local landscape architecture firm, plans to partner with Spohn Ranch, a skate park design firm based in California that builds poured-in-place parks and fabricates metal and precast concrete features across the country. Pictured here is a park it built on a Mississippi River boat for Red Bull. (Photo courtesy Spohn Ranch)

Three firms, LA South, a local landscape architecture firm; Perez APC, an architectural firm based in New Orleans; and Harvey Gandler, a local architect, have proposed plans to partner with SITE Design Group Inc., a national skate park designer that specializes in poured-in-place concrete design. SITE designed the skate parks in Alabaster, shown here, and in Huntsville. (File Photo)

ASD Stantec is an international firm that, according to its proposal, is also licensed in Alabama and has an office in Chelsea, a Birmingham suburb. It has designed dozens of parks, and focuses on poured-in-place construction as shown here in the park it designed in Denver, Colo. (Photo Courtesy ASD)

Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood, a full-service engineering firm that works across the southeast, proposes to partner with American Ramp Company, a designer of prefabricated skate parks. ARC designs prefabricated obstacles from a variety of materials, including steel, seen here. (Photo Courtesy ARC)

The wind hurled a chunk of roof hard into the side of Jayland Parnell's house. He was next door at his great-grandmother's when the tornado hit. Strangely, his basketball goal, which he got for Christmas, was not even overturned, despite being only about 50 feet away.

Sharon Stewart stands in the doorway where her mother, Flora Prince, sat in a wheelchair when the tornado struck her house, which sits right on the edge of Josephine Allen. Prince, 77, had been sitting next to the bed where the roof collapsed. Another daughter, though, who was home at the time, heard the tornado and managed to just get...

After damaging houses along Dr. Thomas Avenue, the tornado moved north, gathering strength, and entered the Josephine Allen housing project, which has been emptied of residents by the Mobile Housing Board. Wind ripped apart the roofs of four or five of the empty buildings, one of which partially collapsed. Fortunately for area residents, the worst havoc wreaked on the neighborhood...

The tornado appeared to have touched down in northeast Mobile, near the Happy Hill community along Telegraph Road. Lelia Baldwin said that she was at her daughter's house when the tornado hit. When she got back, she found a hole in her roof and an exterior wall buckled.